The bones would have slowly broken apart and weathered away.

骨头会慢慢碎裂并风化掉。

In fact, that carcass will likely rot, then dis-articulate, and weather away to dust.

事实上，尸体很可能会腐烂，然后脱节，风化成灰尘。

For tens of millions of years, Wind and water eroded the massif along vertical fractures until most of the rock was weathered away.

千万年来风蚀和水蚀沿着山体的垂直节理进行切割。

As the larvae feed, they riddle the dung pat with tunnels, leaving remains that are quickly colonized by bacteria and fungi and weathered away.

当幼虫进食时，粪便会被钻出一些通道，快速寄生大量细菌和真菌，最终使粪便分解。

Zircon is similar to quartz, both in its chemical structure and in its durability, they both stick around a long time after other minerals weather away.

锆石的化学结构和耐久性都与石英相似，它们都能在其他矿物风化后长期存在。

All the debris, the broken pieces of glass and plastic, the tyre marks, the little sparks of blood, the small shards of bone, they've all been weathered away.

所有的碎片，玻璃和塑料的碎片，轮胎痕迹，血迹，小骨头碎片，都被风化了。

Above this the ridge weathers away to a thin knife-blade for a few hundred yards, and thence to the summit of the range it carries a bristly mane of chaparral.

在这之上，山脊风化成几百码的薄刀刃， 从那里到山顶， 它长满了灌木丛的刚毛。

12. In other cases, the pigment may have been weathered away while exposed to the elements... or someone may have rigorously cleaned the statues and unknowingly removed the last traces of pigment.

在其他情况下，暴露在自然环境中颜料也许风化了，或者某个人非常仔细地清理了雕塑，并且无意识地清除了颜料最后的一丝痕迹。